Wednesday, 21 September 2016

Thursday, 8 September 2016

MICROTEACHING

MICROTEACHING



                   Micro-teaching is a teacher training and faculty development technique whereby the teacher reviews a recording of a teaching session, in order to get constructive feedback from peers and/or students about what has worked and what improvements can be made to their teaching technique. Micro-teaching was invented in the mid-1960s at Stanford University by Dwight W. Allen, and has subsequently been used to develop educators in all forms of education.

                   In the original process, a teacher was asked to prepare a short lesson (usually 20 minutes) for a small group of learners who may not be have been their own students. This was then recorded on video. After the lesson, the teacher, teaching colleagues, a master teacher and the students together viewed the videotape and commented on what they saw happening, referencing the teacher's learning objectives. Seeing the video and getting comments from colleagues and students provided teachers with an often intense "under the microscope" view of their teaching.

                   Microteaching is a technique aiming to prepare teacher candidates to the real classroom setting (Brent & Thomson, 1996). Microteaching can also defined as a teaching technique especially used in teachers' pre-service education to train them systematically by allowing them to experiment main teacher behaviors.

Micro-teaching concentrates on specific teaching behaviour Micro-teaching is a scale- down sample of teaching. Just as a driver will not give his first lesson to a learner on a highway, where there is continuous flow to traffic; so also a pupil-teacher should not be exposed to a real situation even in the beginnings and provides opportunity for practising teaching under controlled conditions. So through micro-teaching, the behaviour of the teacher and pupil is modified and the teaching-learning process is more effective by the skill training.


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22/09/2016